Istari

Engineering Manager

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team focused on data systems, DevOps, and infrastructure reliability.
• Drive technical strategy and ensure consistent, high-quality execution across all team initiatives.
• Oversee all engineering work related to Dgraph, including modifications to core database functionality, CI/CD pipelines, documentation and incident response.
• Mentor and guide a team improving Istari’s Kubernetes-based platform, including Argo CD, Helm charts, and deployment automation.
• Manage a roadmap for technical improvements to customer installation tooling, monitoring, and observability.
• Lead the team in planning and executing deployments into ITAR-controlled and other restricted environments, ensuring all compliance requirements are met.

Engineering Manager – Data and Infrastructure

Full-stack Engineer

• Responsibilities include collaborating with the platform team on environment preparation for platform integration and expansion, which involves conducting and troubleshooting Istari installations. Required technical skills include experience with VPCs, AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and EKS.
• Automate installation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and upgrade processes to reduce time-to-value and improve repeatability across customer deployments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues providing clear and timely communication.
• Develop and maintain documentation, playbooks, and training materials to enable smoother installs across the team and for customers.
• Participate in incident response when issues impact customer environments, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Stay up to date on emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies that can improve our customer delivery.
• Apply and validate security configurations using Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and Security Requirements Guides (SRGs) across various technologies (e.g., operating systems, network devices, applications).

Senior Engineer – Federal Infrastructure

Security Engineer

• Serve as the principal advisor on all matters involving the cybersecurity of assigned information systems.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate information system security program policy consistent with Federal and Commercial regulatory requirements, including JSIG, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, CMMC, and ITAR.
• Conduct risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities in information systems.
• Develop and implement security controls to mitigate identified risks.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of security controls.
• Develop and deliver cybersecurity awareness training to employees.
• Investigate security incidents and breaches.
• Maintain security documentation, including system security plans (SSPs), risk assessments, and incident reports.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with the engineering and customer success teams to ensure secure implementation and configuration of systems.

Information System Security Officer – ISSO

Program Manager

• Manage multiple high-priority programs simultaneously, each with its own set of deliverables, stakeholders, and strategic objectives. Lead program planning, schedule development, budget tracking, and risk management activities across all assigned programs. Coordinate with internal teams to ensure workstreams stay aligned and dependencies are managed. Establish clear reporting mechanisms for program status, risks, and key decisions. Develop and maintain integrated program plans and drive execution across all lifecycle stages.
• Serve as the primary interface between Istari and external stakeholders, including government and commercial partners. Align program execution with contract requirements and customer expectations. Prepare and deliver high-quality briefings, status updates, and decision support materials to sponsors and senior leadership. Collaborate with Sales, Product, and the rest of the Customer Success team to ensure programs support long-term adoption, value delivery, and client satisfaction.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks through proactive planning and agile decision-making. Track and report on program performance against contractual and internal milestones. Support continuous improvement efforts across program workflows, applying lessons learned to future initiatives. Ensure quality of deliverables, timeliness, and resource alignment across programs.

Senior Program Manager

Product Designer

• Lead end-to-end design: Drive concepting, prototyping, and delivery of product experiences for mechanical and aerospace engineering use cases.
• Champion user research: Partner with product and engineering to conduct interviews, usability tests, and workflow analysis to deeply understand user needs.
• Build and maintain design systems: Develop scalable, accessible, and consistent design patterns that ensure high-quality UI/UX across the platform.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with product management, engineering, and domain experts to translate complex requirements into elegant user experiences.
• Mentor and inspire: Provide leadership and guidance to other designers, helping elevate design standards across the organization.
• Create intuitive, high-quality product experiences that balance technical complexity with usability and shape engineering workflows.

Principal Product Designer

• Lead security design and threat modeling for new and existing systems (cloud, application, data, network)
• Implement and manage core controls: IAM/SSO, least privilege, network segmentation, encryption and key management, secrets management, endpoint and email security
• Build and operate detection and response capabilities: SIEM/EDR/SOAR, log pipelines, alert tuning, use-case development, threat hunting
• Own vulnerability remediation: scanning, triage, risk-based prioritization, remediation with product/IT teams, tracking to closure
• Strengthen application and cloud security: SAST/DAST/SCA, secure SDLC, CI/CD guardrails, IaC scanning, container/Kubernetes runtime protections, CSPM/CIEM
• Coordinate and support security testing: internal reviews, penetration tests, red/purple team, tabletop exercises; drive remediation and lessons learned
• Lead/participate in incident response: triage, containment, eradication, recovery, forensics, root-cause analysis, post-incident reports and runbooks
• Define and maintain security standards, baselines, hardening guides, and architecture diagrams
• Monitor and report security metrics, KPIs/KRIs, and risk posture to stakeholders
• Support audits and compliance efforts (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA) and align controls to frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS Controls)
• Conduct third‑party/vendor security reviews and support contract/security requirements
• Drive security awareness initiatives and phishing simulations; mentor engineers on secure practices
• Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery planning and testing
• Automate repetitive tasks and integrations to improve scale and reliability

Cybersecurity Engineer

Infrastructure Engineer

• Work with customers to prepare their environments for and to conduct and troubleshoot Istari installs - relevant tools and competencies include: VPCs, AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, EKS.
• Take ownership for the success of customer installs and deployments, ensuring our platform is successfully set up and configured in customer environments (cloud, on-prem, or hybrid).
• Automate installation and upgrade processes to reduce time-to-value and improve repeatability across customer deployments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve complex infrastructure and deployment issues in customer environments, providing clear and timely communication.
• Implement robust security and compliance practices during installs to align with customer and industry requirements.
• Partner with engineering teams to provide customer feedback on deployment pain points, influencing product improvements.
• Develop and maintain documentation, playbooks, and training materials to enable smoother installs across the team and for customers.
• Participate in incident response when issues impact customer environments, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Stay up to date on emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies that can improve our customer delivery.

Senior Solutions Infrastructure Engineer

Operations

• Sales Operations & Tooling: Own and administer our CRM (HubSpot), including pipeline hygiene, automation, and integrations. Evaluate, implement, and maintain sales tooling (including AI sales automation tools). Lead development and integrations across the sales and GTM tech stack. Be our in-house expert on LinkedIn Sales Navigator—curate lists, track activity, and publish updates.
• Sales Enablement & Content: Centralize, curate, and maintain a single source of truth for sales collateral. Collaborate with designers to produce on-brand sales assets and customer-facing materials. Deliver basic social media support in coordination with the Sales & Marketing Associate. Conduct customer persona development and continuously refine ideal customer profiles (ICPs) in collaboration with sales and marketing. Segment accounts by industry, buyer behavior, and sales potential to support targeting strategies and outbound campaigns. Support the design and execution of account-based marketing (ABM) and territory strategies with actionable data and insights. Analyze go-to-market performance across segments to identify patterns, blockers, and areas for optimization. Deliver persona-specific messaging guidance and sales playbooks that align with segment needs and deal stages.
• Reporting & Performance Management: Build and maintain dashboards to track pipeline health, win/loss rates, activity ratios, and sales performance KPIs. Support forecasting and goal setting with clear, accurate reporting. Partner with GTM leadership on territory planning and metrics development.